By now you've all probably heard about the latest shenanigans from Google and their love for in-browser AI features (if you don't, this is the story: theverge.com/tech/924933/googl…).

Our team has been inspecting the Chromium code and disabling stuff from the very first version of Vivaldi (we have some posts about this in our blog, such as vivaldi.com/blog/news/alert-no… or vivaldi.com/blog/no-google-viv…).

We've also been very outspoken about our dislike of the built-in AI trend in the browser industry, but in case there's still any doubts: yes, we disable all Gemini-related features, and we've been doing it for a while.

#Ai #Browser #Chrome #Chromium #Google #Gemini

Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

Chrome users are discovering that Google is installing a 4GB weights.bin file inside their browser directory when certain AI browser features are enabled.

^{Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)}